Detecting one-hundred-year environmental changes in Western China using seven-year repeat photography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Huai ^a,b,c   Yin, Kaipu ^b   Wang, Haiyan ^b   Zhong, Shenxian ^b   Wu, Ning ^b   Shi, Fusun ^b   Zhu, Dan ^b   Zhu, Qiuan ^a,c   Wang, Weifeng ^c   Ma, Zhihai ^c   Fang, Xiuqin ^c   Li, Weizhong ^a   Zhao, Pengxiang ^a   Peng, Changhui ^a,c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; WESTERN CHINA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SEASON; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053071742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025008     Document Type: Article

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